Legal Researcher
Legal Researcher is an open role at SME Careers, located in Germany, India, The United States, with pay listed as Up to $60/hr.
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About this role
In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Legal Research Subject Matter Expert (SME) to review AI-generated legal research outputs and/or produce expert legal research content, evaluating reasoning quality and step-by-step issue analysis while providing precise written feedback. You will assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to the prompt; identify errors in issue spotting, jurisdiction handling, authority selection, citation accuracy, and rule application; verify that legal statements are appropriately supported by primary authority (where required); write high-quality explanations and model research memos that demonstrate correct, risk-aware legal reasoning; and rate and compare multiple responses based on correctness and reasoning quality. This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your legal expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their legal reasoning more accurate, reliable, and clearly explained. Important: There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you will be among the first experts we reach out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide you with access to future projects available through our expert network.
Pay
Up to $60/hr
About SME Careers
SME Careers's connection to SuperAnnotate: SuperAnnotate expert-work portal. Subject-matter-expert AI training and evaluation
Ownership confidence: Confirmed. See the full network profile →
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Frequently asked questions
How do I apply for the Legal Researcher role at SME Careers?
Applications go through SME Careers's own portal - HumanSourcer links to the listing and never collects applications or handles hiring. SME Careers's access model is "Open / self-serve" (Open roles / applications). This listing was first seen here on July 20, 2026 and was still live at the last check.
Is the Legal Researcher role at SME Careers remote?
This role is listed for: Germany, India, The United States.
What does the Legal Researcher role at SME Careers pay?
SME Careers lists this role's pay as Up to $60/hr, quoted from the listing rather than estimated.
What kind of work is Legal Researcher?
Writing / editing. Subject-matter-expert AI training and evaluation
Is SME Careers a legitimate AI-training platform?
SuperAnnotate expert-work portal - and that relationship is rated "Confirmed" here because it can be checked against sme.careers rather than taken on SME Careers's word. Confidence describes how well the ownership is evidenced. It is not a rating of how the platform treats the people who work for it, which no public source covers reliably.
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